The collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021 found President Joe Biden in a familiar spot: on vacation. According to a new book by journalist Franklin Foer, the vacationing Biden reacted to news of then-President Ashraf Ghani's flight from the Afghan capital of Kabul with characteristic self-control. "Biden exploded in frustration"...

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A new report says former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is laying the groundwork for helping Georgia prosecutors in their efforts to convict former President Donald Trump of racketeering and conspiracy charges related to Trump’s challenge of the 2020 election. Nineteen people, including Trump, were indicted in the...

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Vultures would leave more on the carcass than these people. It's not enough that they indicted the former president for questioning the results of a hard-fought election, now legal scholars are saying that former President Donald Trump didn't have the legal right to profit off his own mug shot because,...

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I recently streamed "Cocaine Bear" (at my wife's suggestion, if you can believe that) and, while I don't think I can in good conscience recommend the film, I have to admit that there were moments I found entertaining. And given that the film cost something like $30-$35 million to produce, according...

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Some of Elon Musk's new policies for the social media platform now known as X have critics fearing it will return to Twitter's censorious past, especially as the 2024 presidential election approaches. Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, is sounding the alarm...

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Mike Williams, a former NFL standout wide receiver and a man who was the runner-up for the Rookie of the Year award in 2010, has died at the age of 36. Jon Scott of Spectrum News in New York first reported Williams’ death on X, formerly known as Twitter, on...

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Joe Biden's dumpster-fire presidency continued its unbroken streak of epic blunders when the octogenarian inexplicably walked out in the middle of a Medal of Honor ceremony, leaving a decorated war hero bewildered and alone on the podium. On Tuesday, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor received the Medal of Honor --...

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President Joe Biden doesn't think his old boss knew how to swear. According to "The Last Politician," a new book by Franklin Foer, "Biden told a friend that Obama didn't know how to say f*** you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants,"...

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul questioned the medical opinion of a doctor who evaluated Senate Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell this past week and concluded his recent episodes of freezing up in public are simply the lingering effects of a concussion. McConnell first froze up in July while addressing reporters in Washington:...

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For those of you with memories that don't reach back 11 years -- I'm talking to you, President Biden -- let me remind you of the heady days of 2012, when President Barack Obama was running for a second term and New Jersey, then led by GOP Gov. Chris Christie,...

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Days after he was hired as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" in 2019, Shane Gillis was unceremoniously fired because it was found he had once made a racially insensitive comment in a YouTube video and didn't grovel enough. (As if there's ever enough groveling.) Now, Gillis is working...

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If boycotters of Bud Light needed a new reason to maintain their campaign against the beer, it appears that they have one after it was revealed that uber-leftist and nanny state advocate Bill Gates has doled out a whopping $1.7 million to buy up stock of Bud Light's parent company,...

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When you purchase a safe, there are certain unspoken assumptions being made. As with any purchase, there is the unspoken assumption that the product will work. There's the unspoken assumption that you're getting a fair price (or at least as fair a price as you can get under "Bidenomics"). And,...

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Doocy does it again! Just when you get a lull of dull WH press briefings, Fox's Peter Doocy comes in and gives a knock-out line, or question, to Biden's press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. This time, the question cut right through the bone to the marrow in both a precisely pointed...

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Progressives aren't very creative. When they find something that more or less works in their favor -- as in giving them more power -- they're eager to try it again. That's the tune that must have whistled through the vacant spaces of Joe Biden's mind when he found out his...

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Special counsel Jack Smith is concerned that former President Donald Trump's statements on social media and elsewhere may be prejudicial to a fair trial for his case, according to a court document filed Tuesday. Smith's team made the comment in an almost off-handed manner in the "Government's Opposition to Defendant's...

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Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has indicted dozens of people on racketeering charges over years of riots and protests in opposition to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which is under construction. "Cop City," as the facility has been called by left-wing activists, has been targeted since it was...

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An Oklahoma woman is facing criminal charges for allegedly filming herself sexually abusing her boyfriend's 3-year-old daughter. Ashlee Cheatham, 19, was taken into custody on Aug. 22 after her boyfriend reported her to Stillwater police, according to a news release from the department. The man said he had found "disturbing...

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The former president's legal woes continued on Wednesday when one of the more nagging issues afflicting him took a turn for the worse. As former President Donald Trump grapples with a quartet of criminal indictments (two of which are on a federal level), a judge has ruled that Trump is...

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Michigan State Police are looking for a suspect who destroyed multiple police vehicles early Wednesday. Police are labeling the suspect armed and dangerous. Several vehicles at the Sault Ste. Marie Post were set on fire and hit by rifle rounds, police announced on social media. The incident took place at...

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